Bedtime Stories - Volume 1: 40 Creepy Tales from Around the World by Fawcett Red & Reynolds Dwain & While Richard

Author:Fawcett, Red & Reynolds, Dwain & While, Richard
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2019-03-18T07:00:00+00:00

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SECRETS OF CELLE NEUES RATHAUS;

A NAZI OCCULT TALE?

During the cold war, soldiers stationed on an army base in Germany found themselves at the mercy of sinister and terrifying paranormal activity. Events were said to be so frightening that some of the men apparently committed suicide. Was there a dark history surrounding the base and could it reveal the secrets of Celle Neues Rathaus?

By April 1945, the forces of Wehrmacht, under the command of Adolf Hitler were in a full-scale retreat across Germany as the Western Allies pushed East into the Fatherland. German soldiers were surrendering in their thousands, a humiliating end for a military machine which had once outgunned and outmatched the forces of any other nation. On 10th April, the US 84th Infantry division crossed the Weser River and captured Hanover. A city which had been bombed almost into oblivion by allied air raids, resulting in 90% of the city centre being reduced to rubble, so there was little to no resistance when US ground forces finally arrived.

The war had been long, its end overdue and the over-extended, under-resourced German soldiers had had enough. Their morale had collapsed along with the buildings around them. The surrounding townships soon followed suit, raising the white flag as soon as allied armour rolled into view. One of these towns, sitting 20 miles north-east of Hanover, was Celle, a comparatively small, unassuming community of around 40,000 people. It was well known for housing one of the largest free-standing brick-built structures in Europe at the time; its Neues Rathaus. Neues Rathaus simply translates to “New Town Hall” and nearly every single German town and city has one. There is nothing special or unusual about its name, but there is something special and definitely unusual about this Rathaus in particular. And whilst this story is famous amongst the British and German soldiers who once took up residence there during the cold war, it is relatively unknown to the wider world.

The town of Celle surrendered on 12th April 1945. As with Hanover, there was no resistance from German forces and certainly not from any of the civilians residing in the bombed-out buildings. The town hall had miraculously escaped the bombing campaign relatively unscathed and, being the gargantuan structure that it was, seemed the perfect place to house occupying troops and form some sort of temporary administration. It had, after all, served as a barracks for German troops and had even housed an SS battalion.

The building itself had five floors above ground and five floors below, but what US forces quickly realised after taking control of the Rathaus was that they could not access the lower levels. They had been completely flooded with water. This immediately piqued the interest of the commanding officer as he could see no reason for the SS to have gone to such an effort, unless they were trying to hide something. Over the next few days, he would make a determined effort to ascertain exactly what the Germans had attempted to cover up.

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